# Fact check: Grim Reaper, Los Angeles, 1994 **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 18, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-check-grim-reaper-los-angeles-1994/832726 "2019-04-18T16:08:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-check-grim-reaper-los-angeles-1994/832726/1 "2019-04-18T16:08:34Z")
A meme I saw today says: > [@](#): > > In 1994 a man was arrested in Los Angeles for scaring elderly people. He dressed himself as the grim reaper and looked inside the windows of the elderly. I could not find any corroborating evidence. Did this really happen? I was living in L.A. at the time, and I don’t recall hearing anything about it. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-check-grim-reaper-los-angeles-1994/832726/2 "2019-04-18T16:15:37Z")
That same blog said that, when a male bee climaxes, its testicles explode and it dies, so I have my doubts about the veracity of the claim. I searched, and I could find no other source other than that same blog, and the blog listed no source for its claim. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-check-grim-reaper-los-angeles-1994/832726/3 "2019-04-19T01:20:43Z")
With my [Newspapers.com](http://Newspapers.com) account, I looked up the Los Angeles Times for 1994. Nothing that approaches that meme. I even looked up other California papers in the 1993-1995 timespan, and the only thing even close to that is a few high schools using a Grim Reaper to dramatize drinking and driving. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-check-grim-reaper-los-angeles-1994/832726/4 "2019-04-19T15:00:59Z")
Don’t Fear the Reaper 😉